U+38A8 "㢨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

The Unicode character 38A8 "㢨" Private Use Area is a reserved code point within the Unicode standard that does not represent a specific, universally defined character or glyph. Instead, it is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A block designated for private or custom use, meaning that software, font designers, or individuals can assign their own meaning or symbol to this code point for specialized applications, such as in corporate fonts, custom symbols and emojis, internal text encoding, or legacy systems. Because its appearance and function are entirely dependent on the private conventions adopted by a particular user or developer, the character has no guaranteed representation across different platforms or devices, and its use outside of that private context can lead to missing or incorrectly displayed text.

General Properties

Code Point U+38A8
Version Added 3.0
Name CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 㢨
HTML Hex Encoding 㢨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0xA2 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x38A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000038A8
C/C++/Java Escape \u38a8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie NMJ
kCantonese hon6
kDefinition to defend; to ward off; to refuse; to reject; to oppose, a frontier pass (in Wuxian) in ancient times, a county in ancient times
kFanqie 侯旰
kGB3 2766
kHanYu 20991.020
kHanyuPinyin 20991.020:hàn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 20991.020
kIRGKangXi 0357.010
kIRG_GSource G3-3B62
kIRG_JSource JMJ-001065
kIRG_TSource T4-226A
kJapanese カン
kKangXi 0357.010
kMandarin hàn
kMojiJoho MJ001065
kMorohashi 09719
kRSUnicode 57.3
kSBGY 400.39
kTotalStrokes 6